Nimbit Artist of the Week: Don Conoscenti!

Nimbit Artist of the Week: Don Conoscenti! March 6,2015

Chicago's Don Conoscenti is a musician's musician through-and-through who enjoyed a supportive musical upbringing. While now best known as a decorated singer/songwriter in acoustic circles-he's a winner of the Rocky Mountain Folks Fest Songwriting Competition and was a National Academy of Songwriters' Acoustic Artist of the Year finalist-fact is the guy cut his teeth by learning drums before learning guitar, and established his acoustic claim after many years spent as a die-hard rocker. Never one to be bound by the limits of genre loyalty, Don is also an accomplished flautist and vocalist.

His few rules mentality also applies to his approach to the guitar-he's the only guitarist I've ever seen use multiple capos on a guitar, including partial capos. If you're a guitar player, good luck trying to figure out how to play his songs just by listening to them. For you he released the hilariously titled Capo Abuse and Guitar Techniques video.

Don's rock'n'roll beginnings have proven a major asset in his ability to stand apart in an ocean of acoustic-driven songwriters. The rockin' influences in Don's work aren't worn on his sleeve, but instead bubble up through the cracks in a much more subtle manner than is typically associated with rock music. So far, he's nine self-released albums into his career.

On his latest release. High Desert Sessions, Don turned to PreSonus Studio One to make the entire record on his own. Of the experience, he says, Thanks to recording software like PreSonus' Studio One Professional, I can now produce, track, orchestrate, mix, master and immediately upload the finished product to Soundcloud and my Nimbit Store, which then allows me to sell it through my website and social media pages within minutes of mastering. It wasn't easy to learn how to do all that, but there's a lot to love about the end result of that process. Thanks for listening and look for a summer 2015 release featuring some heavy hitting guest artists including Ellis Paul and Grammy-winning artists Paul Buckmaster, Bill Miller and Lloyd Maines.

Demo versions of the High Desert Sessions are available now on his Nimbit store.

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